Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Kento Ogawa

Yasuhiro Yuki

Toru Tanigawa

Keiji Icho

Seiya Higuchi

Ryouichi Kawanishi

Michiko Sasagawa

Ryouta Miyazaki

Shingo Miyamoto

Masaki Takahashi

Yuji Kunitake

Katsufumi Inoue

Masahiro Ishii

Shunji Harada

Shohji Ohtsubo

Tomohiro Maeda

Masaru Moriwaki

Masashi Hitotsuya

Shiki Kou

An information processing method includes a presenting step, an obtaining step, and a connecting step. The presenting step is a step of presenting candidate information regarding candidates for an access point to a user via a terminal device communicable with an electronic device. Each of the candidate has a communication standard to which the electronic device conforms. The obtaining step is a step of obtaining, from the terminal device, connection information to be used in wireless communication connection with an access point corresponding to one connection destination candidate selected by the user using the terminal device from connection destination candidates based on the candidate information. The connecting step is a step of establishing the wireless communication connection with the access point corresponding to the one connection destination candidate with reference to the connection information obtained at the obtaining step.

Information processing method, recording medium, electronic device, information processing system, and terminal device

A processor determines, by referring to a memory, which of a plurality of behavior types a behavior type executed by a robot when a first sensor detects an obstacle is; determines a type of the obstacle detected by the first sensor; decides whether first behavior for increasing opportunities of interaction with the user or second behavior for handling the obstacle is performed, based on the behavior type executed by the robot when the first sensor detects the obstacle and the type of the obstacle detected by the first sensor; and controls the robot to cause the robot to execute the decided behavior.

Robot and control method of robot

A device communicates with a human through voice recognition of voice of the human. The device includes: a drive mechanism that drives the device; and a processor. The processor controls the drive mechanism to drive the device to a waiting place for the device to contact the human, and the waiting place is determined based on contact information that is history of contact between the device and the human.

Device, method, and program

If an interaction target includes a child and an adult, if a remaining power amount is less than or equal to a first threshold, and if an interaction amount is greater than or equal to a second threshold, a robot requests the adult to move the robot to a charger. If the target includes the child and the adult, if the remaining power amount is less than or equal to the first threshold, and if the interaction amount is less than the second threshold, the robot requests the child to move the robot to the charger. If the target includes only the child, if the remaining power amount is greater than the first threshold, and if the interaction amount is greater than or equal to the second threshold, the robot stops interacting with the child.

Interaction apparatus, interaction method, non-transitory recording medium, and robot

A robot includes a range finding sensor that measures a distance from the robot to an object facing a display each time the range finding sensor rotates through a predetermined angle. If a difference between a first distance previously measured and a second distance subsequently measured is a first predetermined value or greater, information is stored in a memory to indicate that a down-step is located in a direction defined by a turning angle of the robot when the first distance is measured at a position that is separated from the robot by the first distance. When rotating and moving the main casing in a direction in which the down-step is located, the robot is caused to make a pivot turn first. Subsequently, the main casing is rotated to move in the direction in which the down-step is located by a distance smaller than the first distance.

Robot

If an interaction target includes a child and an adult, and if an interaction amount is greater than or equal to a threshold, a robot asks the adult if the adult allows the robot to continue interacting with the child. If the target includes the child and the adult, and if the interaction amount is less than the threshold, the robot requests to the adult that the adult and the child continue interacting with the robot. If the target includes only the child, and if the interaction amount is greater than or equal to the threshold, the robot stops interacting with the child. If the target includes only the child, and if the interaction amount is less than the threshold, the robot leads the child to continue interacting with the robot.

In a robot, after a first value indicating acceleration in the up-and-down axis direction output from an acceleration sensor exceeds a certain threshold value, when any of the first value indicating the acceleration in the up-and-down axis direction, a second value indicating the acceleration in the front-and-back axis direction, and a third value indicating the acceleration in the left-and-right axis direction is determined to exhibit variation exceeding a certain width for a fixed period, the robot determines that a housing of the robot is being held by a user.

If an interaction target includes a child and adult, if a remaining power amount is less than or equal to a first threshold, and if an interaction amount is greater than or equal to a second threshold, a robot asks the adult if the adult allows the robot to move to a charger. If the target includes the child and adult, if the remaining power amount is less than or equal to the first threshold, and if the interaction amount is less than the second threshold, the robot asks the child if the child allows the robot to move to the charger. If the target includes only the child, if the remaining power amount is less than or equal to the first threshold, and if the interaction amount is greater than or equal to the second threshold, the robot moves to the charger. If the target includes only the child, if the remaining power amount is greater than the first threshold, and if the interaction amount is greater than or equal to the second threshold, the robot stops interacting with the child.

A robot including a spherical housing made up of a main housing portion, a first spherical cap portion, and a second spherical cap portion. The main housing portion is disposed between the first spherical cap portion and the second spherical cap portion. The robot further including a weight that is provided in the main housing portion and configured to rotate around a pivot that is orthogonal to a shaft connecting the spherical cap portions. When outputting a response to an input instruction received from a user, via an input device, based on a predetermined processing is determined to require a predetermined time or more, a robot controls a first drive mechanism during the predetermined processing such that the first drive mechanism rotates a weight around the pivot to reciprocally move the weight in the opposite directions of the pivot.

A robot includes a main casing, a first spherical cap and a second spherical cap, and a shaft linking the spherical caps. The robot further includes a display, a first driving mechanism causing the first and second spherical caps to be rotated by the shaft, and a second driving mechanism that causes the main casing to be rotated. The robot also includes a control circuit and an electric power source, charged by electric power from an external charger. If the remaining electric power of the electric power source is lower than or equal to a predetermined value, the second driving mechanism is controlled to stop rotation of the main casing, and the first driving mechanism is controlled to switch a rotational direction of the first spherical cap and the second spherical cap, causing the display to be reciprocally moved in a vertical direction.

Spherical robot having a driving mechanism for indicating amount of stored electric power

A display method including: performing (S) a service application that is an application for at lease one of services of a specific event, using an information terminal; obtaining (S) a plurality of event information items by the information terminal through visible light communication with a display that displays the event information items, the information terminal being held toward a screen of the display; and displaying (S), when the event information items obtained in the obtaining (S) include related information, the related information on a display unit of the information terminal, the related information being information related to contents of the at least one of the services.

Display method for displaying information desired by a user

An MD management device manages action statistics associated with each of a plurality of shelving units. Action statistics for one shelving unit indicate actions that store visitors make near the shelving unit. An information terminal device acquires, from the MD management device merchandising information for each shelving unit. Merchandising information for one shelving unit includes a value of statistics for the shelving unit. The information terminal device displays a store screen including one or more shelving unit icons each representing one of one or more shelving units located in a store. Further, the information terminal device displays a graphic item in the vicinity of each shelving unit icon. The graphic item is displayed in a display state that is in accordance with the value of statistics for the corresponding shelving unit.

Control method for displaying merchandising information on information terminal

A content control method according to the present disclosure includes: obtaining first content file information including attribute information items each on one of first content files which belong to a first content file group; obtaining second content file information including attribute information items each on one of second content files which belong to a second content file group; narrowing down the first content files, the narrowed-down first content files each having an attribute information item satisfying a condition which is set based on the first content file information and the second content file information; and identifying a first content file and a second content file which are partially or entirely same by matching entity information items each on one of the second content files and entity information items each on one or more of the narrowed-down first content files as matching targets.

Content control method, content control apparatus, and program

A method for controlling a mobile terminal that controls lighting devices that illuminate spaces, the terminal including a display and a memory. The method causes a computer of the terminal to obtain current time information, rearrange scene icons, using the memory that stores scenes indicating illumination states established by the lighting devices and scene time information indicating times of the scenes, while associating the scenes and the scene time information with each other. The scene icons correspond to the scenes based on the current time information and the scene time information. The rearranged scene icons are displayed on the display, and, when a scene icon is selected, a control signal for controlling the lighting devices is transmitted to the lighting devices, so that the spaces are illuminated in an illumination state indicated by a scene corresponding to the selected scene icon.

Method for controlling mobile terminal and program for controlling mobile terminal

An information display method is disclosed in a control system in which a lighting mode is selected from among a plurality of lighting modes, and lighting equipment is controlled at a lighting target area in accordance with the selected lighting mode. The method comprising: generating each of the merchandising values representing an index for evaluating a performance of at least one store; classifying each of the merchandising values in according with each of time periods; obtaining lighting mode information from the control system, the lighting mode information indicating the lighting mode selected in each of the time periods; and transmitting to the terminal device, each of the classified merchandising values and each pieces of the obtained lighting mode information corresponding to each of the classified merchandising values, in each of the time periods.

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Osaka, Japan

Kento Ogawa